Question: You say that if I correct myself, the entire world will appear corrected to me. Then why are so many Kabbalists needed to correct the world if the world is within me?

Answer: To correct the world means to correct yourself. You do not exist in some vast external world and the people you see do not exist by chance; they are parts of your soul.

Therefore, besides you and the Creator, there is no one else. Everything you see— the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels—is you; they are all parts of your soul! By uniting them within yourself, you will attain complete unity with the Creator. This will be your complete correction.
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From Kabbalah Lesson on Russian, 8/19/18

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Question: What is wrong with us, what is our ailment?

Answer: Our ailment lies in the fact that we cannot distinguish good from evil, and we cannot gather the good within ourselves and integrate it in such a way that it gradually covers the evil. It is a very difficult path.

Question: So, we will be searching for this good? Something to take, like a pill, in order to escape the evil? In other words, regarding evil, will we come to feel that we are complete egoists?

Answer: That is precisely what will be considered evil.

Question: And will we understand that it is evil?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And then we will ask for some kind of remedy?

Answer: Yes. Because through the suffering, we are already drawing an illumination of benevolent light that can reveal to us where our evil actually lies.

Comment: Is this the most important thing? We always come back to this point. You constantly lead us toward this point: for a person to look and see themselves as they are: evil, bad, and flawed. Usually people are told the opposite: “There is still something good in you; you are capable; you can succeed.”

My Response: That exists only as a starting point. But who are you really? You are absolute evil. Yet, there is a spark within you that will guide you. And you need to fan it into a flame.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/15/26

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Question: What are these states in which we must seek the Creator?

Answer: Every state originates in its spiritual root, descends into our world, and clothes itself in various material forms. Through these garments, I must find the connection with the one who arranged this situation for me; I must discover the origin and the cause of what is taking place.

Everything that descends to me from Him through all the spiritual worlds, through the various bodies of this world, and through all kinds of circumstances; I must relate all of it back to the Creator. Under no circumstances should I think that there are any other forces besides the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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Question: When a person searches for the source of their state and seeks connection with the Creator, is there any point in asking why these states are being sent to us?

Answer: The Creator always gives us the states that are necessary according to the root of our soul. He reveals the Reshimot that we must go through at a given stage so that, from within those states, we may attain Him and establish connection with Him. It is not for us to choose those states.

One should not delve into them, searching for something that, in one’s opinion, would bring a stronger or deeper connection with the Creator. There is no need for that. Rather, in every state, one should grasp the Creator as the cause of that situation.

As soon as I begin seeking contact with the upper one in every circumstance, I make an effort. Yes—no, yes—no; I am tossed from one state to another, and they continually change.

When, in states of fear and anxiety, a person begins to relate them to the Creator, then within that very point, within that sensation, one perceives a connection with the divine. Then the Creator conceals Himself once again, and the person again experiences fear, like a child frightened by an imaginary bear.

The Creator alternately reveals Himself and conceals Himself, and accordingly the person alternately finds a connection with the upper one and then loses it again. One should always seek to reveal the cause; one should disengage from the superficial view of reality and engage one’s inner vision.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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